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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
James Mitchell
(Nova Scotia) and
Hany El Naggar
(New Brunswick).
I am particularly grateful to Hany El
Naggar who has agreed to take the
lead in reviving the New Brunswick
Section after moving it from Moncton
to Fredericton. The new Committee
Chairs are
Jinyuan Liu
(Education)
and
Kent Bannister
(Professional
Practice). Finally, I am pleased to
announce that
Murray Grabinsky
is the new chair of the CGS Geo-
technical Research Board. Amongst
a number of other tasks, this Board
is responsible for the selection of the
annual CGS Colloquium Speaker.
Scott McDougall
(BGC Engineering)
has been selected the
2014 CGS Col-
loquium Speaker
and will give his
talk at the 67th Canadian Geotechnical
Conference in Regina this fall.
At the annual CGS Board Meet-
ing held on September 29, 2013, I
Computing Committee
. The con-
sensus of the CGS Board of Directors
was that computing methods are now
ubiquitous in all technical areas of our
geotechnical discipline and thus the
need to promote computing methods
through a separate committee was
no longer required. As a result, the
motion was approved unanimously.
An agreement on the award rules for
the
Schuster Medal
was recently
finalized between the CGS and the
Association of Environmental &
Engineering Geologists (AEG). This
medal is named in honour of Dr.
Robert Schuster who is an internation-
ally recognized expert in the area of
landslides with a career spanning 60
years including many years with the
USGS. The medal is given to members
of the CGS and AEG who have made
outstanding contributions to geohaz-
ards research in North America. The
will be given in alternate years to a
CGS member and an AEG member. I
am delighted to see this award formal-
ized because it reflects the collegiality
and common interests of engineering
geologists on both sides of the border.
In other award-related news, I am
delighted to report that two of our
CGS members (
Gordon Ward
Wilson
and
Régis Bouchard
) were
elected
Fellows of the Engineer-
ing Institute of Canada (EIC)
. No
more than 20 EIC members from all
11 constituent Societies of the EIC
are granted this distinction each year.
Congratulations to them both.
I’m also is pleased to announce that
our agreement with
BiTech Publish-
ers
has been renewed for another
three years. In addition to publish-
ing Geotechnical News, BiTech also
distributes our
Canadian Foundation
Engineering Manual (CFEM).
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